The Liberal Democrat spokesperson for Children, Families and YoungPeople, Annette Brooke, said the Government had proved it could not betrusted with large databases holding personal details.
'There could be more than financial costs involved if the addresses ofvulnerable children from a family separated because of domesticviolence, for example, are not kept secure,' she said.
The shadow children's secretary Tim Loughton has also called for theGovernment to suspend ContactPoint. The National Family and ParentingInstitute and the Office of the Children's Rights Director also voicedtheir concerns.
Dr Roger Morgan, director of the OCRD, which last week published areport, Making ContactPoint Work, said, 'Children want to be assuredtheir information will remain safe and confidential and have askedspecifically that a child's photograph or telephone number will never beput on the database.'
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